Usage Note
Putahe comes from Spanish 'potaje' (a type of stew) and in Filipino refers broadly to any cooked dish or viand served with rice. It is a slightly formal or literary term compared to the everyday 'ulam'. Cookbooks and restaurant menus often use 'putahe' to label dishes.
Examples
" Masarap ang putahe nila. "
Natural Translation
Their dish is delicious.
Literal Translation
Delicious the dish their.
" Anong putahe ang inihanda nila para sa hapunan? "
Natural Translation
What dish did they prepare for dinner?
Literal Translation
What dish the prepared they for in dinner?
" Bawat putahe sa hapag ay may kanya-kanyang kuwento na minana pa sa lola naming dalubhasa sa lutong-bahay. "
Natural Translation
Each dish on the table has its own story, inherited from our grandmother who was an expert in home cooking.
Literal Translation
Each dish in table has each-its-own story that inherited still from grandmother our expert in home-cooking.
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